[Ads-l] Wokeness

[Dennis During]

Could they be waiting for "wokitude" and "wokism", both also quite
attestable?

On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 5:11 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> I have a lexicographical question that is puzzling me.  The vogue use of
> "woke" is now well recognized.  But I don't see "wokeness," which surely
> has become an important word in its own right, in OED or Merriam-Webster.
> It has over 3 million Google hits, and over 10,000 hits on Nexis.
> "Wokeness" is in the Urban Dictionary, Wiktionary, and Cambridge English
> Dictionary.  According to Nexis, the word has appeared as early as Feb. 5,
> 2014 (in University Wire).  Why haven't the two major dictionaries picked
> it up yet ?
>
> Fred Shapiro
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